Katalina Litvak family collection

Identifier: irn49898
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 by Katalina Litvak, the daughter of Imre and Magda Lederman Miselbach.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of scrip, correspondence, and documents relating to the experiences of Magda Miselbach and her young daughter Katalin (later Katalina) in Hungary, in Karcag and Szolnok ghettoes, in Strasshof concentration camp, and Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp and of Imre Miselbach in Hungary, the Hungarian labor service, and Auschwitz, Dachau, and Muhldorf concentration camps during the Holocaust.

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Katalina Miselbach Litvak papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn73611
- English
- folders 2
- Updated 1 year ago
The collection includes correspondence and documentation surrounding Imre and Magda Miselbach and their daughter Katarina and their experiences surrounding the Holocaust in Hungary and the Czech Republic. Correspondence includes letters written from Imre Miselbach in Črenšovci to Imre and Margit Szekely in Karcag in May 1944.
Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 (funfzig) kronen note, from Jewish Hungarian inmates
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn73612
- English
- overall: Height: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) | Width: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Theresienstadt scrip valued at 50 kronen received by the family of Katalin Miselbach when they were imprisoned in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp from November 1944-May 1945. In March 1944, Germany invaded Hungary. Magda Miselbach, pregnant at the time, and her parents Adele and Shmuel Lederman were forced into the Jewish ghetto in Karcag. Magda's husband Imre had been in a Hungarian labor battalion since 1939. Katalin was born in the ghetto on May 2. That summer, the family was transported to the Szolnok ghetto and then deported to Strasshof concentration camp near Vienna, Austria. In Nov...

Katalina Litvak family collection

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Katalina Miselbach Litvak papers

Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 (funfzig) kronen note, from Jewish Hungarian inmates